Meanings
plural larders
- A cool room in a domestic house where food is stored.
1 more example
He had always intended to marry when he could afford it; and once he had been in love, violently in love, but had laid the passion aside, and told it to wait till a more convenient season. … But when, after the lapse of fifteen years, he went, as it were, to his spiritual larder and took down Love from the top shelf to offer him to Mrs. Orr, he was rather dismayed.
1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVI [Uniform ed., p. 169] - A food supply.
Many of these cones had opened, and nuthatches visited the tree frequently to take seeds from the squirrel's larder.
1990, Stephen B. Vander Wall, Food Hoarding in Animals, page 243
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna small storeroom for storing foods or wines
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinlardārium
- Old Frenchlardier
- Anglo-Normanlarder
- Middle Englishlarder
- Englishlarder
Inherited from Middle English larder, from Anglo-Norman larder and Old French lardier, from Latin lardārium. By surface analysis, lard + -er.
More words from Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian килер
- килер (kiler)cool room used as food storage
Catalan rebost
- rebostcool room used as food storage
Dutch provisiekamer
- provisiekamercool room used as food storage
Estonian sahver
- sahvercool room used as food storage
Finnish ruokakomero
- ruokakomerocool room used as food storage
French garde-manger, cellier
- garde-mangercool room used as food storage
- celliercool room used as food storage
German Kühlraum, Speisekammer
- Kühlraumcool room used as food storage
- Speisekammercool room used as food storage
- Vorratsraumcool room used as food storage
Hungarian spájz, éléskamra
- spájzcool room used as food storage
- éléskamracool room used as food storage
Latin lardarium
- lardariumcool room used as food storage
Māori pātaka, kōpapa
- pātakacool room used as food storage
- kōpapacool room used as food storage
Norwegian spiskammer
- spiskammercool room used as food storage
Polish spiżarnia
- spiżarniacool room used as food storage
Portuguese despensa
- despensacool room used as food storage
Romanian cămară
- cămarăcool room used as food storage
Russian кладова́я, кладо́вка
- кладова́я (kladovája)cool room used as food storage
- кладо́вка (kladóvka)cool room used as food storage
Spanish despensa, alacena
- despensacool room used as food storage
- alacenacool room used as food storage
Swedish skafferi
- skaffericool room used as food storage
Turkish kiler
- kilercool room used as food storage
Ukrainian комора
- комора (komora)cool room used as food storage
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with larder
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Cite this entry
larder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/larder
“larder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/larder. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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